Back from here and there...
It's time to ease back into reading and writing in the weblog world and see how it goes... I pulled the plug for a bit for a number of reasons.
This wasn't nearly as drastic as in 1990, when I literally pulled the plug, but I don't think that's possible anymore (which is sad in it's own way). Back then I resigned as a SysOp on GEnie, quit ALpe (might have been AOL by then), resigned from some local BBS's, stopped calling into FidoNet at home and AppleLink at work. I didn't do email or chat (or GEnie real time conferencing) for 6 months. I needed that break because I was up to my ears in learning new things, trying to get a new product done in a very short period of time and quite simply out of bandwidth. Today, there is no way that an employee in a technology company can drop out from the barrage email, im and phone crud everyone deals with all the time. It's possible that you can drop out electronically in small companies, but even there I'd have to assume it's getting harder.
In this case, it started normally enough. I was under water for several days so I had no time to write. I barely had time to read anything and it wasn't blogs. When I had some time, I found I was once again reading more or less random material, instead of following a dozen or so blogs around. This was interesting and I followed it for a while. I realize now that I need to find a balance between my desire to read everything interesting and my need to randomly read. A dozen good weblog's offer so much opportunity on any given day that my natural curiosity is stifled and there still is not enough time to follow everything.
Writing in a weblog tends to encourage reading them. This is good and bad. Good because there is a lot of terrific discussion and mental friction happening, always useful for technical discussions. Bad because the political views and discussions are often more widely flung. I need to stop following around political discussions; there is no end in sight and far too often I'd just end up annoyed with no outlet (lest I perpetuate the topic).
So I'll work on balance and once again, I'll have somewhere to stick all stuff that shows up... (it has been accumulating lately).
11:03:20 PM 
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